The First Dynasty of The Alien
March 4, 2014 - April 4, 2014
Ascension Address
This dynasty was automatically triggered when all members of the previous dynasty became (willingly) Infected and the NPC Alien character achieved victory. ("If every Survivor who is not Disabled is Infected, The Alien achieves Victory. In this case, all Dynastic Rules are repealed and a new Dynastic Rule is created with the name “Glorious Overlord” and the text “The Alien is an entity that is treated as a Survivor for all purposes. The Alien may never be idled.” Then, a new Dynasty begins with The Alien as Captain.")
Final Ruleset
Posts of Interest
- Feeling Better gave the infected crew scores for Mutation, Size, Brain and Limbs, with the Alien having plenty of each.
- What's That, Skippy? allowed the Alien to vote, through the channel of an Infected Communicant.
- Please Hold allowed players to hold objects according to how many Limbs they possessed.
- Shut Up and Keep Digging introduced locations; when a new location was created by proposal, every player who voted for it was moved there.
- Now it’s a little harder to pick up rocks introduced tools to affect dig proposals.
- Go To Work on an Egg introduced alien eggs.
- Savings and Clone allowed players to reset their stats in a particular location.
- I can’t let you do that, Dave created a location which affected voting on regular proposals.
- It Followed Me Home allowed eggs to hatch into stat-boosting hatchlings.
- Rule of Claw let the infected mutate a method of attack, later followed by fangs
- Down and Out snuck in an "achieves victory" mechanic - it had no comments after 30 hours, so Kevan edited it to include a clause about a random voter achieving victory. (I think my thinking was that it might time out and give me a victory, or someone would actually read it and consider giving it the one extra FOR it needed to enact - and that I may as well give a careful reader an incentive to vote FOR rather than blow the whistle. --Kevan)
- A Tight Squeeze created a new Crawlspace location which blocked larger players from taking game actions if they were present in it.
- Royal Jam created a new location below the Crawlspace with a die-roll victory; the proposer's intention was that they would be the only player in the Crawlspace small enough to dig through to it, but due to the wording of the dig mechanic, they actually could.
Ascension
Benzene achieved victory as a result of the die roll.
